This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This series of videos features Salk Institute computational neuroscientist Thomas Bartol.

Jonas Salk is best known for his work in creating the life-saving polio vaccine, but for our purposes, he was equaliy heroic for releasing his work to the public, famously saying that the people owned his vaccine and exclaiming, "Who owns my polio vaccine? The people! Could you patent the sun?"

Today, the Salk Institute is one of the premier biology research Institutes in the world. At the time of this interview, Thomas Bartol's work there was aimed at fighting myasthenia gravis, a wasting disease that causes people to lose control of key muscle groups, such as the muscles for breating and swallowing.

In his series of interviews, Thomas explains how Free Open Source Software's open production environment is really just an extension of the scientific method of peer review of repeatable experimentation. Thomas also explains his work in creating a life-saving fundamental research software tool, called Mcell, which helps scientists understand how neural synapsis communicate. In other words, his work explores fhe foundations of how the brain works. Mcell is a Free Open Source Software tool, created with Free Open Source Software.

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